EBK BIOLOGY
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Chapter 36, Problem 5S
Increasing human population on the planet is stretching our ability to produce sufficient food to support the world’s population. If you could engineer the perfect crop plant, what features might it possess?
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As scientists have developed more productive crop varieties, farmers have switched from growing many traditional varieties to new high-yield varieties. For example, in India, the 10,000 varieties of rice once grown have been reduced to 10 major ones for most of the rice crop.
Why is this practice of reducing the varieties of a crop dangerous?
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It makes the overall crop more susceptible to pests and/or disease.
It reduces the variety of crops available for human diets.
it requires a larger investment than small farmers can make
it could reduce or cause the extinction of some predatory insects
A nine-year research and experimentations have successfully developed rice plants with golden hue kernels instead of the usual white kernels. What is the advantage of this modified rice plant?
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To make the plant become resistant to herbivores.
To provide sufficient rice produce due to its shorter cycle.
To add nutritional value to the rice kernels.
To allow easy harvesting and processing.
Some genetically modified plant varieties incorporate a “self-destruct gene”, which causes anyseed produced by the plants to be unable to germinate.a) What are some ecological advantages to these “self-destruct genes”? Explain youranswer.b) Identify another reason why the enterprises that developed these varieties might haveincorporated such genes
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EBK BIOLOGY
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